cord
- Museum number
- Oc.7909
- Description
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Cord made of fibre (bast), coloured with white pigment.
- Dimensions
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Height: 10 centimetres
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Width: 13 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register comment:
'It is produced by laying two strings of twisted fibre, side by side, and then working them over and in and out with fine strips of bast'.
Miss P. cut this from a long line of the same.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Acquisition notes
- Bishop J C Patteson was affiliated with the Melanesian Mission. Register notes 'sent home by Bishop Patteson No history'.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.7909
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1873C1.7909 (old CDMS no.)